Elliot S! Maggin for Congress

[snakebitcat]

http://www.maggin.com/maggin/ca24/manifesto.htm

He's already said that "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" is his guiding campaign principle - I can only hope he can use the movie theme in at least one commercial.

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[prodigal.livejournal.com]

But, the part that made me pause and scratch my head and then shake it was "An ongoing war......without an end date. That is just really a bad concept statement that shows an uninformed/uneducated view of the realities of war.

And yet it's still a dmned good description of the war in Iraq - one which the Bush administration assured us as it built the case for invasion "could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months".

When he used the term "end date", I expect that he was referring to the lack of any actual goalposts by which we can declare the mission to have actually been accomplished (as opposed to the President's chance to play soldier on that aircraft carrier years ago), and get our men and women home so that we don't have to keep pouring our blood down the rabbit hole that Bush and his people keep insisting upon digging deeper.